So let me ask you.  Have you kept your New Years Resolution to lose weight?  What?  I can’t hear you… I see a lot of smiles and hear a few giggles.  You didn’t, did you?  Not to worry, neither did the millions of Americans or Canadians that kept a New Years Resolution to lose weight.

But can I tell you a secret?  I kept a resolution to lose weight.  You know what else?  I was successful.

Those that have been following my other weight loss site (http://www.lose-weight-n-feel-great.com) know that my family and I moved out to BC several years ago.  At the time, I was a 48-waist and around 280lbs.  I spent some time at home, but over the years the weight crept up and in 6-years time I ended up gaining 30lbs.

Just before 2011 I promised myself that I will lose weight.  But I didn’t make any New Years Resolution, I resolved to myself that I must lose weight.  I didn’t make any promises to anyone — not even my wife or 7-year old (an only child, who loves soccer and expects that I will play with him).

I did it for me.  The side effect was that I had more energy to play with my son and do more around the house.  It was a win-win situation.

Today I am 284.5 lbs – not quite 280, but I can no longer wear my size 54 pants.  In fact even my size 50′s are too loose and I have to get them ALL taken in!  I love it!

When you are wanting to lose weight, you cannot wait (or is that weight) for New Years Resolutions, promises to your wife, son/daughter, significant other or anyone.  You need to lose weight because YOU want to.  Yes you may be doing it for other reasons — and that’s not bad, but you should be doing it primarily for you.

Will you keep making resolutions to lose weight?  Or will you do it for you?

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I blame my son.  His allergies are holding me back.

Joking.

But I have slacked off, and who would notice but da ‘wif.

So her comment was “are you just going to sit around on the couch again.” and I’m like “no – when do I do that?” and she’s like “all the time.”.  End of discussion.

So I promptly got onto the scale and weighed myself – 299lbs.  SO while I’ve kept my weight down I’m F-A-R from where I want to be.  Ideally by the end of this year (2009, honey not when hell freeze over) I would like to get down to 250lbs.

That’s my long-term goal for 2009 – lose 50lbs within 6 months time.

That’s only 8lbs per month and the ideal weight loss is 1-2 lbs per month.

So how am I going to get there?  By making many smaller goals that I can easily measure.

So my first goal is to lose 4lbs by July 16, 2009.  Yes that’s quite a bit, but I know my body and how I burn calories and know that I can meet that goal.

How will I get there?  By watching what I eat, and doing more exercise.

Breakfast

Bowl of Bran Flakes cereal with 2% milk (can’t stand skim milk), a small piece of home made cake (about 3″ by 2″).

Snack

Cherries.  Lots of them.

Tea.  About 2-cups of tea with 2% milk and no sugar.  Love my tea!

Lunch

Campbells Hearty Noddles soup.

Snack

Cherries.  More cherries.  I like cherries.

Oh… and something deliciously sinful and sweet – a large Butterhorn pastry.  I know I shouldn’t have, but couldn’t resist.  Besides, it was the last one.  Won’t be buying these anytime soon!

Tea.  About 2-cups of tea with 2% milk and no sugar.  Love my tea!

Dinner

Going out to a persian restaurant in North Vancouver.  The food is GREAT and we usually buy the same thing all the time.  Large green salad, rice with kobideh kabab.  Very good, probably more than I should be having but we don’t go out often so this is a small treat for us.

We ended up doing a bbq at home – burgers, some chicken wings (skin removed) and corn.  Lots of salad on the side, water to wash it all down with (I avoided soda pop).  Burgers had cheese on them, some mayo, mustard, ketchup and pickles.

Now you might be thinking that that’s not a lot of food (breakfast + snack + lunch + snack) – well, no it isn’t.  But I sit all day, so really need to watch what I eat otherwise I gain it twice as fast!

I also had a lot of water.  About 3 x 20oz worth of the wet stuff.  I was running to the washroom every hour!!!

I’ll probably have a late snack as well – usually it’s cereal.  I find as I get older, I need to have my fibre.  So normally it’s something like regular Cherrios with a 1/3 cup of a high-fibre cereal and milk.  Seriously though regardless of your age you should be having a lot of fibre.  It makes you feel full, and helps control cholesterol.  Porridge is a great source of fibre – just make it with very little to no sugar or other sweet stuff added to it.

Exercise/Activity

I was on an hour long conference call today, and had my wireless headset on so could pace my office.  I managed to get in about 400 steps.  Not bad, but definately not enough.  Hope to get out tonight and do some walking or playing Wii with my son as he really can’t go out too much due to severe allergies this year.

Did go out for a short walk and managed to get in just over 2,000 steps.  So a step (pun intended) in the right direction.

I don’t go to the gym – too expensive, and I get bored easily.  But I did spend money on a cool iPod Touch and loaded it with tunes from iTunes and from Napster (after they went legit) and will take that with me on my walks.

I’ll weigh myself next Thursday around 6:00am and will share the results with you.

I’ll also work on some side shots so you can see the difference… well, actually I’m not sure if I’m ready to share pictures yet.  We’ll see.

I will share with you what I’m having daily so that you can follow along and see what I’m doing to lose weight.  Chris over at The Second Coming Of Chris said this:

“I deprive myself of nothing, but don’t over-indulge or gorge on anything.”

Exactly.  I eat what I want, and what I like – but I don’t over-indulge nor do I gorge or binge.  I satisfy my cravings, and that is what has made me successful in my weight loss.

Till tomorrow…

Mohamed

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